When Windows runs low on space on the system partition, your PC starts to slow down, updates fail to install, errors pop up ...

The System Reserved Partition is a special partition in Windows that is invisible to users, including administrators. It is designed such that no drive letter is ...

If you’ve ever used a drive formatted with Linux and tried to access it on a Windows system, you’re likely to have problems, especially if the drive uses the NTFS file system. Even though NTFS is ...

Most PCs come from the factory with a single partition on their hard drive, meaning that it shows up as one drive in the Computer window (as C:, typically). But keeping your data, applications, and ...

As a test run for upgrading to a SSD, I just cloned my Toshiba laptop's 720Gb HDD to a 1Gb HDD using Macrium Reflect. The target HDD was connected to the laptop by a USB docking station. The clone is ...

If you moved your operating system from a mechanical hard drive to a solid-state drive (SSD), the partitions may not be aligned properly. If this is the case, you’ll notice slower performance, but ...

A disk refers to the physical storage medium itself, such as the magnetic platter in a hard disk drive (HDD) or the flash memory in a solid-state drive (SSD). It is the actual physical material that ...

My buddy John is right about most everything. The one thing where I think he has been proven wrong is when he insists that you should just dump all your files and ...